Reading Homer - Film and Text (Hardcover)

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These nine new essays on Homer's epics deal not only with major
Homeric themes of time (honor), kleos (fame), geras (rewards), the
psychology of Homeric warriors, and the re-evaluation of type
scenes, but also with Homer's influence on contemporary film.
Following the introduction and an essay which sets the historical
background for the epics, four essays are devoted to fresh analysis
of key passages and themes while another four turn to a discussion
of the film 'Troy' and Homer's influence on two other genres of
American cinema. The background essay by Shawn Ross, 'Homer as
History: Greeks and Others in the Early Iron Age', argues that
understanding Homeric epic as the product of a longstanding oral
tradition facilitates its use as a source for early Greek history.
The next four essays delve into Homer's texts themselves focusing
on a number of fresh approaches to the epics. Rick Newton's 'Geras
and Guest Gifts in Homer' draws parallels between xeineia
(hospitality and guest-gifts) in the Odyssey and geras (gifts from
plunder) in the Iliad. John B.Vlahos's 'Homer's Odyssey, Books 19
and 23: Early Recognition: A Solution to the Enigmas of Ivory and
Horns, and the Test of the Bed' tackles certain aspects of the
Odyssey that have created problems for Homerists since the epics
were composed. Scott Richardson's 'Conversation in the Odyssey'
focuses on character conversation while Joel Christensen in 'The
End of Speeches and Speech's End: Nestor, Diomedes and the telos
muthon' turns back to the Iliad and offers a close reading of a
crucial passage in Iliad 9 concerning the phrase telos muthon. The
second set of four essays turn to film beginning with two
contributions on Wolfgang Petersen's Troy. Jonathan S. Burgess's
'Achilles Heel: The Historicism of the Film Troy' finds the film's
weakness in its trying to portray a factual Trojan War rather than
concentrating on the myth of the Trojan War while Charles C.
Chiasson in 'Redefining Homeric Heroism in Wolfgang Petersen's
Troy', observes tha